Minimize External Queries Now, one thing about CDNs is that they make up for their external query by loading your media faster than your server can do it. That isn’t the case for every form of external query. An external query is any time your server needs to call out to another site or another server to fetch information. Every one adds, at the absolute minimum, the time the server call takes plus the time the other server takes to…

In the life of each person, there comes a time when it is worth thinking about where to invest some money, in order to be able to make a good profit. In the last few years, sports betting became very popular. It can be proved by the amount of advertising on the Internet, which constantly pursues users at almost every step. In fact, only two categories of people can make money on bets. Professionals who turned bets into their profession…

A fast server response time is one of the most important factors for site load speeds. It doesn’t matter how smushed your images are, how compressed your scripts, if the server takes seconds to respond. To a certain extent, there’s only so much you can control with your server. I’ve attempted to list as many factors as I can that can help you speed up your server, which in turn helps your site load quickly and your PageSpeed ranking increase. Reduce Plugins…

There are a lot of Devops service providers, let’s talk about Devops methodology to make sure that everything is clear. We started to talk about Devops 10 years ago. Since then, many IT companies were trying to integrate it into their activities, or at least pretend to work using this methodology. But even now, not everyone understands the full meaning of the buzzword devops. Let’s try to figure out what devops is and why this methodology can be really interesting…

The slower a website’s load time will be, the higher is the chance of abandonment. Most customers wait up to three seconds for a page to load. Forty-seven percent of customers expect a given Ecommerce website to load in less than three seconds. So, if your Ecommerce store fails to do so, it is likely to be abandoned by most site visitors. In other words, you will end up losing potential customers. No Ecommerce store would want this to happen. Hence, optimizing site speed…

There’s an interesting phenomenon with regards to the internet that the more tech-savvy among us might not notice, and those less educated in the world of the web are prone to doing without realizing. The usual URL format is www.example.com. We all recognize this as a website URL. However, there’s one thing missing from that URL that is, in fact, critical. That’s the HTTP:// part of the command, the hyper text transfer protocol, with or without the S for secure. At the…

We all know by now that the speed at which your site loads is a search ranking factors. It matters in two ways. First, it matters because Google says it does. A few years ago, Google announced that they were going to start considering load times as one of their many factors involved in SEO. Secondly, it matter because people say it does. When you go to load a website, how long do you wait before you’re frustrated, go back to the search…

Talking about a content delivery network and SEO in the same sentence is a tricky one. A CDN can be a huge benefit to SEO, or it can hurt your site immensely, and it all comes down to configuration. How a CDN Works A content delivery network is sort of like an augment or a superpower for your website. It’s a way to make a $10-a-month web hosting package feel like a $100-a-month package. So what is it, and how…

Over the last few years, as mobile device usage on the web increases and overtakes desktop web usage, Google has been making numerous large and small changes to encourage more mobile adoption. Some of these changes are separate entirely from desktop rankings, while others affect both. Let’s look at what goes into mobile rankings and how they can impact desktop rankings. Mobile Compatibility First up, a quick definition. Mobile compatibility can mean many things for a website. You can have a dedicated…

There’s some confusion about hidden content for SEO, and how it interacts with mobile web development and indexing. I’ve decided to write this post to cover the issue and hopefully shed some light on the situation. The Risk of Hidden Content Hidden content has long been a forbidden practice on websites, primarily because of past abuses. It’s a story that has been around as long as Google has; something comes about to abuse the search ranking algorithm, and Google updates…